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title: "Informed eConsent with PKB"
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The PKB record is the best place to capture a patient's consent for a procedure. Digital informed consent relies on tools that are customisable, secure, auditable, and accessible. Both PKB Care Plans and Advanced Questionnaires offer capabilities to support the digital informed consent process.
# Why
- Accessible to all – Patients, carers, and professionals can easily view consent documentation, including consent recorded by a professional.
- Rich content – Forms can include text, videos, and links, ensuring patients and carers fully understand the procedure.
- Collaborative decision-making – Patients can contribute relevant details, such as their fitness for a procedure, alongside professional assessments.
- Flexible consent capture – with either PKB care plans or Advanced Questionnaires, manually or automated sending.
# What
- PKB care plans and advanced questionnaires can be used to capture consent.
- A centralised, accessible record of consent for patients, carers, and professionals.
- Rich multimedia content, including text, videos, and links, to support patient understanding.
- A collaborative approach where patients can contribute relevant health information.
- Flexible consent capture allows professionals to document verbal consent or guide patients through the process.
- Ability to capture e-consent signatures.
### PKB can handle consent because
- Each user is authenticated when adding data, ensuring secure access and accurate records.
- All data is securely stored, documenting who entered what and when.
- Every version of a care plan is saved, clearly distinguishing data entered by professionals and patients within the consent form.
# How with PKB Care Plans
Digital consent can be recorded and signed by both the patient and the professional in a PKB care plan. Watch this short video and view the screenshots below.
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## The professional
## The Patient
## Day of Surgery or Procedure
# How with PKB Advanced Questionnaires
Consent can be securely captured using PKB’s Advanced Questionnaire (AQ) feature. Teams can create consent questionnaire templates with signature fields for patients and professionals. The advantages of PKB Advanced Questionnaires include the ability to be sent manually to individual patients, in bulk, and also via integration, which automates the sending and retrieval of consent into hospital systems.
This functionality is especially valuable for teams implementing fully digital e-consent forms with built-in electronic signature capture.
Watch the short video below of a patient completing a consent questionnaire in PKB. Hospitals can send consent questionnaires to both registered and unregistered patients.
## How The Patient Completes AQ
## How Professional Send AQ
## Day of Surgery or Procedure
The professional reviews and amends the questionnaire on the day of the operation/procedure. This is available to all AQ if the team turn on professional edits.
# Example Consent Templates
- [Oncology consent care plan templates:](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/3572990098) two informed consent care plans and workflows for cancer patients
- [Colonoscopy consent care plan template: ](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/3573285004)how to provide informed consent to the patient digitally
- [Professional edit only care plan example](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/4287692969): showcasing the feature.
# Example Smart Goals for PKB eConsent
Implementing electronic consent (eConsent) via PKB using the Care Plan functionality allows teams to create a secure, auditable, and collaborative consent process.
Because PKB Care Plans allow for professional-only edit sections (for the clinician's signature/counter-signature) and patient-editable sections (for the patient's signature and confirmation), they are ideal for capturing a full digital audit trail.
# Premetrics
To effectively demonstrate the impact of PKB features, it is essential to gather baseline (pre-metric) data before implementation. These metrics provide a foundation for measuring improvements, identifying efficiencies, and validating the outcomes achieved by your team. For guidance on setting specific goals and capturing meaningful outcomes from your team's use of PKB, get in touch with your PKB Success Project Manager.
# Further Information
- [Information Governance Wiki](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/3540123721): No consent is required for a healthcare provider to store data in PKB.
- Consent for storing patient-entered data is automatically captured during PKB's registration process. You can view the patient experience on the [joinpkb.com](https://joinpkb.com) registration page.
- [The Information Governance Wiki](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/3540123721): Explains the privacy policy and user agreement.
- Consent for sharing data is handled through the [sharing settings](https://sites.google.com/patientsknowbest.com/manual/patient/sharing) in PKB.
- [Pre-Metrics for a Team:](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/4836163607/Pre-metrics+for+a+Team+Use+of+PKB+Messaging#Pre-Metrics-for-a-Team) Examples and methodology for collecting pre-metrics
- [Generic SMART Goals for PKB Implementation](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/DEPLOY/pages/4831608883)
- [Advanced Questionnaire API Specification](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4474372098)
- [Advanced Questionnaires API Workflows](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3828613148)
- [FAQs - Care Plans (Sending) Feed (HL7)](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3890315366)
- [FAQs - Care Plans (Extracting Data) REST API](https://wiki.hub.patientsknowbest.com/wiki/spaces/api/pages/4179656718)